A library is a hospital for the mind.” – Anonymous
ALVIN TOFFLERChange is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
More Alvin Toffler Quotes
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Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it…to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.
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If you don’t have a strategy, you’re part of someone else’s strategy.
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Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn’t deliver, the king cut off his head.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.
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Information overload will lead to ‘future shock syndrome’ as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
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By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.
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Much education springs from some image of the future. If the image of the future held by a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth.
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Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
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Society needs people who…know how to be compassionate and honest…Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they’re emotional, they’re affectional. You can’t run the society on data and computers alone.
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One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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